I apologize for not sending a Friday News last week. The South Carolina Society of Professional Engineers and I spent last Friday preparing for and feeding those taking the Professional Engineers Exam. We feed a lot of pizza to 347 PE examinees. ACEC-SC was a sponsor at Senator Larry Grooms, Chairman of the Transportation Committee, […]
March 15-17, 2019 The Westin Poinsett Greenville, SC Online Registration Our 2019 ACEC-SC Strategic Planning Retreat led by ACEC-SC Vice Chair Keith Overstreet, PE, Design South Professionals, begins with a “Where are we now?” look at the Strategic Plan that was established at last year’s retreat. Joe Clark, Clark Strategic Consulting, will be back to […]
Good afternoon. I hope you all have enjoyed Engineers Week. I’ve seen lots of sharing on social media. Thanks to everyone who participated. In an effort to promote engineering and Engineers Week, I spoke to fourth graders in the Oasis Program (advanced gifted and talented students) at Riverbank ElementarySchool this week. I was happy to hear three of the students […]
I apologize for not sending a Friday News last week. The South Carolina Society of Professional Engineers and I spent last Friday preparing for and feeding those taking the Professional Engineers Exam. We feed a lot of pizza to 347 PE examinees. ACEC-SC was a sponsor at Senator Larry Grooms, Chairman of the Transportation Committee, […]
March 15-17, 2019 The Westin Poinsett Greenville, SC Online Registration Our 2019 ACEC-SC Strategic Planning Retreat led by ACEC-SC Vice Chair Keith Overstreet, PE, Design South Professionals, begins with a “Where are we now?” look at the Strategic Plan that was established at last year’s retreat. Joe Clark, Clark Strategic Consulting, will be back to […]
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM Membership Meeting 9:00 AM-11:00 PM Board of Directors meeting
Held in conjunction with the Board Retreat
The engineering community is interested in numerous issues relating to business as well as the health, safety and welfare of our citizens. ACEC-SC follows many bills and issues of importance. Stay involved, contact your legislator.
Though we passed H. 3516, now Act 40, we still need indexing of the motor fuel user fee. ACEC-SC along with the SC Alliance to Fix our Roads will be examining what we will do in the future for transportation funding.
Unfortunately, the House non-concurred and this bill went to Conference Committee. The House’s interpretation of the Senate’s amended language is being called “bad for consumers” as they are interpreting it as all projects will need a design professional to sign off on the project. Our interpretation is that in the code in question, there are […]
Pipe Bill: H.3652, also known as the pipe bill, gives pvc piping material a preference when procuring piping material for state projects. The engineering community believes the final say of what type of piping material should be left up to the engineering designing and stamping the project. The engineering community opposes H. 3649